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Title
Food and agricultural biotechnology in ethical perspective / Paul B. Thompson.
Edition
Third edition.
ISBN
9783030612146 (electronic book)
3030612147 (electronic book)
9783030612139
Published
Cham : Springer, [2020]
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xxxi, 404 pages).
Other Standard Identifiers
10.1007/978-3-030-61214-6 doi
Call Number
TP248.65.F66
Dewey Decimal Classification
174/.9664
630.01
Summary
This 3rd edition of Food and Agricultural Biotechnology in Ethical Perspective updates Thompson's analysis to reflect the next generation of biotechnology, including synthetic biology, gene editing and gene drives. The first two editions of this book, published as Food Biotechnology in Ethical Perspective in 1997 and 2007, were the first comprehensive philosophical studies of genetic engineering applied to food systems. The book is structured with chapter length treatments of risk in four categories: food safety, to animals, to the environment and socio-economic risks. These chapters are preceded by two chapters providing orientation to the uses of gene technology in food and agriculture, and to the goals, methods and background assumptions of technological ethics. There is also a chapter covering all four types of risk as applied to the first US technology, recombinant bovine somatotropin. The last four chapters take up 1) intellectual property debates, 2) religious, metaphysical and "intrinsic" objections to biotechnology, 3) issues in risk and trust and 4) a review of ethical issues in synthetic biology, gene editing and gene drives, the three key technologies that have emerged since the book was last revised.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Source of Description
Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed January 25, 2021).
Series
International library of environmental, agricultural, and food ethics ; v. 32.
Available in Other Form
Print version: 9783030612160
Introduction
Chapter 1: Food and Agricultural Biotechology: An Overview
Chapter 2: The Presumptive Case for Agrifood Biotechnology
Chapter 3: Biotechnology, Policy and the Problem of Unintended Consequences: The Case of rBST
Chapter 4: Food Safety and the Ethics of Consent
Chapter 5: Animal Health and Welfare
Chapter 6: Ethics and Environmental Impact
Chapter 7: Social Consequences
Chapter 8: Intellectual Property in the Biotechnology Debate
Chapter 9: Religious and Metaphysical Objections to Agrifood Biotechnology
Chapter 10: Risk, Ethics and the Problem of Trust
Chapter 11: The Next Generation Biotechnologies: Synthetic Biology, Gene Editing and Gene Drives.
